Why I Just Blocked Ken
This morning I had prematurely joined a group which appears to have originally been created to unite all the bloggers that have blocked Ken from their blog. Now, I am a bona fide member of that group. Below are my reasons for deciding that Ken has abused his privilege to post on my blog:
Ken attempted to access the blog of a fellow blogger who is also my friend. When Ken realized that this person's blog is private, thus inaccessible to uninvited visitors, he sent my friend an offensive email. I considered his actions and the content of that message to be insulting and a form of harassment.
Within the comments section of my Banning Policy post Ken harassed and insulted somebody else. He clearly ignored the warning that I gave him in the Banning Policy post.
Ken also violated Vox's Terms of Service:
7. CONTENT AND CONDUCT RULES AND OBLIGATIONS
Should Content be found or reported to be in violation with, but not limited to, the following terms, it will be in Six Apart's sole discretion as to what action should be taken.
You agree that you will not:
(a) upload, post, transmit or otherwise make available any
Content that is unlawful, harmful, threatening, abusive, harassing,
tortuous, defamatory, vulgar, obscene, libelous, invasive of another's
privacy (up to, but not excluding any address, email, phone number, or
any other contact information without the written consent of the owner
of such information), hateful, or racially, ethnically or otherwise
objectionable.
Not only have I seen evidence that Ken violated some, or all of the terms which are in bold and underlined text on my blog and in two private messages (One sent to me, the other sent to another recipient), I have also noticed a pattern of such abuse on several blogs. This is more reason why I blocked Ken a short while ago.
I decided to join the group I Blocked Another VOX ***Hole, which appeared to have been originally created as a group to unite the VOX members that have, or will block Ken. I discovered this link at the blog, Here Be Trolls and in the first post that was made to profile an obviously notorious troll, Ken (a.k.a., ken863). I am not at all surprised to see that Ken was the first troll profiled there. I am, however, shocked to see that he has still managed to avoid getting banned by VOX and subsequently losing his blog and account, considering the apparently vast number of VOX TOS that he has committed.
It is my opinion, he should bow to the people that have not complained to VOX about his chronic and frequent abuse of basic rights to free speech and expression.
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If Six Apart is not interested in upholding its TOS, at least, where issues, such as, the ones I pointed out and copied from the service's TOS page are concerned, then there is always another way to deal with a naughty troll.
Here's the Patrick for your blocking pleasure (complete with a racist post, although I think he mainly began the blog because "ken" was blocked. Patrick did in fact leave a rude comment on my blog after I blocked his first entity).
Good points about the terms of service. I am in fact in favor of free speech, in other words I'd hate to have Vox immediately kick off everyone who said offensive things, but they should certainly recieve warnings and be dismissed if they don't heed them. Not sure what's up with Sixapart these days.
Ah, this reminds me! I believe, BlingKing was the only other blogger that I banned from my blog. It's all coming back to me.
To censor because you do not like certain ideas or to complain because someone actually reads your blog and comments is without merit. Personally, I encourage readers that disagree with my views as a way to continue the learning process. It is the Sean Hannity and Michael Moore types that I want to converse with most. Your solution is easy..only allow those you choose to see or comment or your posts.
I hope Lil Treva doesn't mind if I speak up, but...really, Lightfoot Letters? You think harassment, obscenities, petty bullying is the what you call "not liking certain ideas"? This is what ken wrote on Treva's blog:
i've worked would have killed a little whine butt like you,the way you talk,the way you sound tells me that you would have been that little girl who always had to have someone else finnish her work.and the way you put your little story leads me to believe that your full of what makes the grass grow green.just another silly little whine butt!!!!!!! spewing her self pity for the world to hear...
Are you seriously going to tell me that's simple disagreement? It's rude and harassing. And ken, if allowed to continue, in the past has spewed obscenities and accused people of molesting children.
Don't even try to tell me anyone should make their blog entirely private because "ken" supposedly has some God-given right to harass someone who's discussing their medical issues. He violated Vox Terms of Service.
Sorry, Treva, if you would rather have responded first, feel free to delete my comment. But I saw this on the I Blocked Ken group and it ticked me off.
And ps Lightfoot Letters, from what I've seen you're very polite, so I'm surprised you'd stand up for ken just because he doesn't like Obama. Be careful with whom you keep company.
The comment was not a defense of a particular person. It was more about organized censorship. I personally would not belong to a group whose sole purpose was to censor another. That is just the liberal part of me. Does it come back to bite you in the butt sometimes..yes it does. The amateur porn on Vox, I would prefer be posted on a more suitable site for those who like the sexual exploitation of women. But that is just me. It is not required of you.
Note: jebuff post 'Discussion with Lightfoot'
Interesting you say that, because I haven't joined the group either. I certainly understand their anger (towards ken and also Vox who has not spoken up over harassment enough) but I try as hard as I can to keep negativity off my site.
Does it come back to bite you in the butt sometimes..yes it does.
I'm curious what that refers to, bites ken in the butt, or people who formed the group....not being sarcastic, I'm just genuinely confused.
The amateur porn on Vox, I would prefer be posted on a more suitable site for those who like the sexual exploitation of women. But that is just me. It is not required of you.
And now I'm really confused. What's up to me? How did porn show up in this conversation?
Since you brought it up, though, I'm disgusted over the porn sites on Vox. I'm shocked that Vox hasn't at least deleted those. That's one of the reasons why I'm creating groups that are private.
Had Ken come here with the same argument stance, but without resorting to personal insults, which he carried over to a private message to me and, at least, one other person, then he would not have been blocked.
I have not deleted any comments posted by Ken on my blog. For that matter, I still have his instant message to me which contained a false accusation (that I allegedly blocked him) sent on Oct. 29, the day before I posted Banning Policy and three days before I actually blocked Ken and created this post to explain why I did it.
I do not expect other people to block Ken, or anybody else. I interpreted suggestions from others that I consider doing it as friendly advice.
People are well within their right to openly disagree with anybody. Nobody has a right to resort to personal attacks of any kind, or threats, or any other conduct which is intended to discourage open and free exchange of views, ideas, and other information.
As for porn, I am disappointed that Vox does not, at least, provide an alternate area for adults only for that type of material, one that is separate from ours. I certainly hope that the content is exclusively limited to willing adult humans that are not harmed in the making of that material.
No need to apologize, Emmi. I don't think that I needed to be the first to respond. Just so you and others know, I rarely delete another person's comments. Just spam.
I do not think that Lightfoot Letters meant any harm. I was not upset by this person's comments. If anything, I feel that I and others were misunderstood.
Thank you. I see it's been carried to a new level on Jebuff's blog. If I didn't have a raging headache I'd have something else intellgient to say, LOL.
Keep on blogging, friend.
"Keep on blogging, friend."
Thanks, friend! :D
I shall! ;)